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This removes grub and all the loopback device business from the default build process. Running grub takes about a second, and it turns out it's inconsistently packaged in different distributions, which has led to at least one confusing issue so far (grub-install vs grub2-install). Removing it from the basic path will make it easier for people to try Serenity out. There are now two scripts that can be used to build a disk image: 1. `build-image-grub.sh` - this will build an image suitable for writing to the IDE hard drive of a physical machine, complete with a partition table and bootloader. This can be run in qemu with the `qgrub` target for the `run` script. 2. `build-image-qemu.sh` - this is a simpler script which creates a bare filesystem image rather than a full MBR disk. Both of these call out to `build-root-filesystem.sh` to do most of the work setting up... the root filesystem. For completeness' sake, I've retained the `sync.sh` script as a simple forwarding to `build-image-qemu.sh`. This relies on the functionality from #194 and #195. #195 allows us to use `/dev/hda` as the root device when nothing else is specified, and #194 works around a strange feature of qemu that appends a space to the kernel command line. |
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Serenity
Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
About
I always wondered what it would be like to write my own operating system, but I never took it seriously. Until now.
Serenity is a love letter to '90s user interfaces, with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by me, for me, based on the things I like.
If you like some of the same things, you are welcome to join the project. It would be great to one day change the above to say "this is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like." :^)
I regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.
There's also a Patreon if you would like to show some support that way.
Screenshot
Current features
- Pre-emptive multitasking
- Multithreading
- Compositing window server
- IPv4 networking with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP
- ext2 filesystem
- Unix-like libc and userland
- Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
- mmap()
- /proc filesystem
- Local sockets
- Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
- Event loop library (LibCore)
- High-level GUI library (LibGUI)
- Visual GUI design tool
- PNG format support
- Text editor
- IRC client
- DNS lookup
- Desktop games: Minesweeper and Snake
- Other stuff I can't think of right now...
How do I build and run this?
Go into the Toolchain/ directory and run the BuildIt.sh script. Then source the UseIt.sh script to put the i686-pc-serenity toolchain in your $PATH.
Once you've done both of those, go into the Kernel directory, then run makeall.sh, and if nothing breaks too much, take it for a spin by using run.
Otherwise, see the older step-by-step guide to building Serenity
IRC
Come chat in #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.
Author
- Andreas Kling - awesomekling
- Robin Burchell - rburchell
License
Serenity is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.